Soap-cake



A. s. MIL ES.

SOAP CAKE.

(No Model.)

No. 437,818. Patented 0015.7, 1890.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED S. MILES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SOAP-CAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,818, dated October 7, 1890.

Application filed March 22, 1887. Serial No. 231,910. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED S. MILES, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Cakes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention has relation to cakes of toilet and other soaps for various purposes, the object of my said invention being to produce a simple, cheap, and efficient block or cake of soap, which may be used in washing or scrubbing in the usual ways of using hard soaps, and which shall at the same time be capable of use as a washing or scrubbing brush, combining the two articles in one, whereby the one article is made to enhance the convenience and efliciency of the other.

The invention consists in the matter hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a crosssection of a cake of soap embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a partial elevation of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views showing a different form of brush applied in the like manner and for like purposes.

In all the figures like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a block or cake of hard soap which may be of any size or any shape.

In Figs. 1 and 2, B indicates a brush having a triangular-shaped back I), as shown, and this is inserted in a correspondingly-shaped cavity provided for it in the soap-cake. It is secured by an elastic cord, as c, joining it with a wire or other retaining device d, located on or in the end or edge opposite the brush. To mount this in place the retainer (1, having the cord attached, is passed through an aperture 6, provided for the purpose, and then turned and pressed into the soap, as The cord constantly draws the brush shown.

to its proper seating as the soap wears away, and the triangular form of back keeps the brush rigidly in place, so that it may be used as desired.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 3 and i the brush is secured after the same manner and is of like construction, except that the back is fiat and has a fiat bearing upon its seat in the cake, which for some uses is pre ferred. In these two forms the brushes are designed to be appliedto different cakes and intended to be used until worn out. They may be supplied, one with each box of a halfdozen cakes prepared to receive them. The brush and soap-cake being thus combined in one article will he obviously convenient and eliicient, the soap aiding the operation of the brush and the brush in turn increasing the efficiency of the soap, and both will last longer for being thus combined.

The most obvious use of the combination is for hand purposes but it is by no means intended to limit it to such uses. For shampooing, for massaging, for various washing and scrubbing purposes, and particularly for applying medicinal soaps to animals, the brush, in connection with the soap-cake, will be found advantageous. The portion of the soap-cake removed to receive the brush is more valuable than the brush itself, so that the improved article can be furnished at less cost than the soap without the brush.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the soap-cake, of the brush, the elastic cord, and retaining device, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ALF. S. MILES.

Witnesses:

W. J. MORGAN, WORTH OSGOOD. 

